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2 months ago - 3/10/2020

Quarter-final debutants Brest and defending champions Györ top the charts

After 36 matches, the Main Round of the DELO WOMEN’S EHF Champions League came to an end on Sunday and now only eight quarter-final games separate Europe’s best clubs from the DELO Women’s EHF FINAL4 in Budapest on 9/10 May 2020.

Taking those 36 matches and the 24 group matches which carried into the main round into account, defending champions Györ are still the only unbeaten team with eleven victories and one draw against Brest on their tally.

Eight teams from six countries have progressed to the quarter-finals, including two first-timers, Brest and Esbjerg, with two teams from France, for the first time, and Romania.

Here are the most important facts and figures of the DELO WOMEN’S EHF Champions League main round.

0 quarter-finals see teams from the same country facing each other.

0 teams finished the main round on zero points, the lowest total was two points for Sävehof, which they earned in the group matches.

0 team won all of their main round matches.

0 club has participated in all six previous editions of the EHF FINAL4: Györ and Vardar have each been a part of five tournaments, Buducnost made it to Budapest four times so far.

1 quarter-finalist is still unbeaten, Györ. After six group matches victories, the defending champions won five main round matches and drew once against Brest Bretagne.

1 quarter-final duel is composed by former EHF Champions League winners: CSM Bucuresti (winners in 2016) against the team they beat in that final, Györ (winners in 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019).

1 team has defended its title in Budapest: Györ in 2014, 2018 and 2019.

1 match of the 2019/20 season - the 38:38 draw between Vipers and Metz - ended with more than 70 goals.

2 nations are represented by two quarter-finalists each, Romania (Bucharest and Valcea) and France (Metz and Brest) for the first time.

2 teams are debutants in the quarter-finals: Team Esbjerg (DEN) and Brest Bretagne (FRA). Both finished second in their main round groups.

2 teams lost all six of their main round matches: Sävehof and last season’s EHF FINAL4 participants Vipers.

3 teams, which were part of the DELO WOMEN’S EHF FINAL4 2019, are still in competition: finalists Györ and Rostov as well as fourth ranked team Metz.

3 main round matches were attended by 5,000 fans or more, all at Györ.

3 of the 36 main round matches (and three of those 24 games from the group matches, which were taken to the next stage) ended in a draw.

3 former EHF Champions League winners, with a total of eight trophies, are still in the race for the 2019/20 title: Györ (2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019), Bucharest (2016) and Buducnost (2012, 2015).

250 goals conceded by CSM Bucuresti is the best defensive record in the main round, just two goals ahead of Györ and Valcea (252 each) and three ahead of Brest (253).

250 matches in the EHF Champions League was reached by Krim in their final main round match against Buducnost. The 29:23 win was the 126th victory, only Buducnost, Györ and Hypo Niederösterreich have won more matches in the competition.

311 goals scored by Brest gives them the best attacking record, ahead of Györ (309) and the duo of Metz and Esbjerg (289).

1,972 goals were scored in the 36 main round matches, 1,014 in group 1,958 in group 2. The average per match is 54.77 goals, compared to 55.60 in the group matches.

4,849 goals have been scored in total so far in the 2019/20 season. 206 in qualification, 2,671 in the group matches and 1,972 in the main round.

15,960 fans in total attended Györ’s three main round matches. The three CSM main round matches were attended by 12,500 fans, putting them just ahead of Metz with 12,063 fans at their three home matches.